I have an old Sony Vaio laptop that I’m trying to get Mint Xfce to work on. I needed to use compatibility mode when originally booting from the USB in case that’s relevant.
The issue I have is that after the mint logo, it’s just a black screen. A hard reset and starting in recovery mode will work, but I’d like to not have to go through recovery mode every time.
I’m assuming it’s a driver issue with the Nvidia card (GeForce 310M), but the Driver Manager just shows a checkmark saying no drivers needed and nothing else (I’m guessing I should be able to see current drivers or something, anything?).
I’ve spent the last couple of hours searching in forums and have yet to figure out how to fix it.
I ended up installing an older version of mint as suggested by another comment and it seems to be working just fine now. Guess there’s a limit to how backwards-compatible the newest version is.
It’s really more nvidia’s fault than Mint’s—the nvidia proprietary drivers periodically drop support for a generation or three of cards, and nouveau doesn’t work properly with some cards because nvidia has a history of not giving out needed information.